John Barrowman Quotes

The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.

I like to say I'm not a hero.

The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.

I am not a hero.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

It's taken some getting used to, that my father actually is a hero.